Word: artistes
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Degas did not invent the monotype, but he used it and developed it to a far greater extent than any artist before him, and possibly since him. Briefly, it is a process in which greasy ink is applied to a plate and wiped away with rags and/or blunt and sharp instruments (dark field manner), or one in which one draws with the ink on the plate (light field manner). The paper is then run through a press with the plate. But unlike the output of other graphic media, only a few impressions at most are obtainable. Also unlike most other...
HOUR OF THE WOLF. In this eerie symbolic tale of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist, Sweden's Ingmar Bergman paints one of his most effective portraits of the dark night of he soul...
Died. Rudolph Dirks, 91, German-born artist and creator of those comic-strip delinquents The Katzenjammer Kids; in Manhattan. Starting with the old New York Journal in 1897, Dirks was the first to use balloons to enclose dialogue, first to plot a story in consecutive panels, and one of the first to use color. Today his strip (now known as The Captain and the Kids and drawn by his son John) is syndicated in 96 U.S. and 20 foreign papers...
...Bondarchuk makes the most of his forces. Cavalries plunge and break in tidal waves; columns of infantry writhe to the horizon and beyond; choruses of cannons shout like narrow mouths of hell in a series of vivid instants that recall the trancelike battle paintings of Uccello. With a knowing artist's eye, the director composes vignettes reminiscent of the harshness and heartbreak of Goya etchings. Again and again, the dolor and grandeur of Russia's convulsive struggle with Napoleon provide a panorama truly worthy of Tolstoy, a writer who did not believe in leaving anything...
...about childhood-its secrets and its silences-thus forcing everyone to share the same formative dreams." That is probably an exaggeration, suggesting that, like Disney himself, Schickel romanticizes the. good old days, and sentimentalizes the nature of childhood as well. Schickel argues that Disney could not have been an artist because his simplified view of reality narrowed rather than expanded consciousness. Yet time and again he somehow feels the need to hold Disney up as an artist-only to wind up proving that he wasn't. It is usually done in a tone of deep disappointment...